Combined handle and latch



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LEON Pansy, or CINC'INNATI, orrro, .assrenon ro rm: ooorna oo nrona'rron, or omomnarr, OHIO, A conronarron or DELA'WARE.

COMBINED HEQNDLE AND LATCH.

Application filed March 14, 1923. Serial N0. 625,163.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEON PERCY, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Gincin' nati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Handles and Latches, of which the following specification is a full disclosure. 7

This invention relates to a combined handle and latchprimarily as means for detachably securing a receptacle cover to its receptacle and for lifting the receptacle, the device as a whole being formed from a single piece of sheet metal.

The subject matter of this invention is divisional in respect to an application for a storage battery container filed by me September 27th, 1922.

An object ofthe present invention is the provision of a combined handle and latch. element, adapted to be secured to a container or receptacle such as a battery container, the device acting as a handle for lifting thecontainer and as means for detachably securing the lid or cover upon the container, two of the devices being generally used and, attached, at respectively opposite sides of the container.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a combined handle and clip or latch which may be cheaply manufactured by simple stamping from a single sheet of suitable material and pressed or bent to provide a hand-hold or handle, and aligned curved lips adapted to engage a corresponding groove or recess in the cover.

Other objects and certain advantages will be more fully set forth in the descriptionof the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this application, in which:

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a con tainer having a cover thereon detachably locked by my combined latch and handle device, I

Figure 2 is a fragmentary face view of the container with my combined handle and latch attached thereto.

The container 1 may be of any suitable dimension and material and in this instance has been shown as a storage battery container. The upper outer edge of the container is notched as at 2 to provide a seat for a cover 3. Two diagonally opposite side walls of the cover are provided with longitudinal grooves or recesses 4-. A pair of combined handle and latch members 5 are secured, respectively at opposite sides of the receptacle by screws 6 and each is composed of sheet metal stamping forming a catch or latch for enother and each comprises a body portion having a plurality of tangs 7 through which the screws6 extend to attach the clip to the wall of the container. An apertured handle portion 10 extends as a continuation of the body portion and provides a pair of spaced limbs 7 connected by a cross bar 11 of tubular formation furnishing a hand-hold or handle, the hand-hold being formed by laterally bending and circularly curving the edges of the cross bar portion.

Each handle extends beyond the upper edge of the container wall and slightly above the top surface of the cover when the cover is closing the container. The limbs 7 are impressed or punched to provide curved ribs 12 for engagement with the longitudinal groove or recess a in the side walls of the cover. In the present instance, the side walls of the container are paneled and surfaces are provided which correspond to the contour of the attaching portion of the handle to give an ornamental appearance to the container. The material of the latch is sufliciently resilient to be conveniently flexed when applying and removing the cover to permit the lips or lugs 12 to automatically engage with the groove 4:. As the cover is pushed towards the receptacle the lower edge of the same ens gages the impressed or punched in portions to flex the handles outwardly and as the GOV? er reaches receptacle-closing position the impressed portions snap into the grooves. The combined handle and latch may be very cheaply made and, in performing the double function of a latch and handle, eliminates the necessity for separate devices of that character.

Having described my invention, 1 claim:

1. A combined latch and handle, comprising a sheet metal plate having aligned crimps, said plate punched to provide an Q" Y I I 1,491,880

opening' and tofigue, said tongue rolled to outer-edge of seid sheet to form lfi hula r d provide a hand-hold forsaid handle, parallel hand-hold, and the metalat each side of said 1 with said crimps. opening p'unchede'to provide aligned' rprojecr 2A combined handle a nd latoh; formed tions,'s'aidl1andhold andaligned'projections;

1; I by Stamping a piece of sheet inetal to 'proparallel to each other. v

vide an opening therein adjacent oneslde of In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe said sheet, themetal at one side of said. open-I my'neme, I i f ingrolled to meet the correspondingly rolled e r I geLEON PERCY. v 

